NDLI: Linear Decay of Retrotransposon Antisense Bias across Genes Is Contingent upon Tissue Specificity

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Author	Linker, Sara Hedges, Dale
Editor	Khalil, Kashkush
Copyright Year	2013
Abstract	Retrotransposons comprise approximately half of the human genome and contribute to chromatin structure, regulatory motifs, and protein-coding sequences. Since retrotransposon insertions can disrupt functional genetic elements as well as introduce new sequence motifs to a region, they have the potential to affect the function of genes that harbour insertions as well as those nearby. Partly as a result of these effects, the distribution of retrotransposons across the genome is non-uniform and there are observed imbalances in the orientation of insertions with respect to the transcriptional direction of the containing gene. Although some of the factors underlying the observed distributions are understood, much of the variability remains unexplained. Detailed characterization of retrotransposon density in genes could help inform predictions of the functional consequence of de novo as well as polymorphic insertions. In order to characterize the relationship between genes and inserted elements, we have examined the distribution of retrotransposons and their internal motifs within tissue-specific and housekeeping genes. We have identified that the previously established retrotransposon antisense bias decays at a linear rate across genes, resulting in an equal density of sense and antisense retrotransposons near the 3′-UTR. In addition, the decay of antisense bias across genes is less pronounced among tissue-specific genes. Our results provide support for the scenario in which this linear decay in antisense bias is established by natural selection shortly after retrotransposon integration, and that total antisense bias observed is above and beyond any bias introduced by the integration process itself. Finally, we provide an example of a retrotransposon acting as an eQTL on a coincident gene, highlighting one of several possible avenues through which insertions may modulate gene function.
Related Links	http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0079402
Starting Page	79402
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ISSN	19326203
e-ISSN	19326203
Journal	PLoS ONE
Issue Number	11
Volume Number	8
Language	English
Publisher	Public Library of Science
Publisher Date	2013-11-01
Access Restriction	Open
Rights Holder	Public Library of Science
Subject Keyword	Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology(all) Agricultural and Biological Sciences(all) Medicine(all) Research in Higher Education
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Multidisciplinary

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